Nevada County picayune., 1887-06-22

ous to cells recently formed than to those of older formation, this is why the health of young persons is more easily injured by the use of alcohol than that of old CT ones. The whisky drinker often grows very lieshy and seems to be robust and healthy, but this is only snare to tempt others into the same delusion. Tue red and rosy face is caused by the alcohol af- fecting the blood vessels, and the increased amount of fat caused by drink IS a positive injury. Our best physicians have declared al collol not to be food, and if lot a food it is certainly an injury lo the body. The stomach only requires sufficient amount of food to sup ply the needs of the body, and any thing taken into the body which does not supply needis certainly an injury and may be classed as Il poison to the body. Let not your drink be stronger than nature, but let nature be stronger than your drink. Two of the greatest harm ful results of alcohol to the body Is indigestion and thirst; but it IS claimed that in small doses it aids digestion, if so, it should be class, ed as a medicine and not as bev- craze.
 No young man ever expects, when he takes his first drink, to become drunkard Never did he think his character and morals would be ruined by drink. But alas! he became q slave to the cup. Of course he commenced by mod crate drinking, thinking as all do. that he had power to control him self. It is true all moderate drinkers do not become drunkards, but a large per cent do, and 'hls should be warning to all moder ate drinkers. But suppose you do not become drunkard you arc still in the wrong, for even moderate drinking will destroy your health, it will set bad example before your children, and all with whom you arc associated. and this may cause their ruin if not yours, Re member it is the moderate thinker who leads the youth to take his first drink and not the drunkard. Drink is the chief source of all crime. It has been correctly stated that three.f .fourths of all crime is caused by drink. It causes more harm and sorrow to humanity than war, famine and pestilence com bined. Thirty-6ve per cent of all lunacy, forty-five per cent of all idiocy. seventy-6ve to ninety per cent of all pauperism, and ten per cent of all deaths are caused by the great curse strong drink. lt has been stated, and that by good authority, that if England could be rid of her saloons niue-tenths of her prisons would be closed. The same might we'll be said of our own nation. Can we not rid ourselves of this great curse, which, if it con tinues in our land is destined to ruin our nation?
 We of:en hear 1t said "let whis- ky alone and it will let you alone.h But how untrue is this, for how o!- ten do We find the family of the drunkard absolutely in need of the necessaries of life; the children crying for bread, and the wife heart broken on account of her drunken husband. Will you claim whisky has left them alone! They have not touched it still it has caused them great trouble. Did it leave alone the wife who was killed by her husband while Tn a ht of drunkenness! Is il leaving alone those ot our nation who leave it alone? We answer d thousand times. no, for we have to share the evils 1t brings on our nation the same as those who use it One ob. jection against prohibition IS that 1t would be restricting the rights of the people. But we claim that no one has any right whatever to sell that which is running our nA- ton. Have we right to quaran- tine against any contagious dis ease! Certainly we have. Then have we not a right to stop the manufacture and sale ot liquors which is doing more injury than all diseases combined! We hear as an argument for it's sale that it is source of revenue to the Govern. ment. Admit it is. Can we af ford to let such a curse as whisky remain among us simply for the revenue it brings our Government! Can we afford to pay the exI enses of our Government at the cost of crime, wickedness and pauperism. And besides, if the sale of it was stopped, it would reduce the eX- penses of our Government great deal more than the revenue it brings. Our prisons would almos: be vacated; our asylums would be cleared of their inmates; our schools aud churches would pros per, and our nation would shine in her brightest glory.
 But what can be done to drive this curse from our land, while 1t continues to be manufactured and sold among us no effort under heaven can elevate the moral StanuinU of our nannle N hn pSp if